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Former Ph.D. Students

  • Dr. Brian Munneke. 2001.
    "Null model methods for cluster analysis of gene expression data"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Jayson Wilbur. 2001.
    "Variable selection in high-dimensional multivariate binary data"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Michael Black. 2002.
    "Statistical issues in the design and analysis of spotted microarray experiments"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Dachuang Cao. 2004.
    "Quantitative trait locus mapping in polyploids"
    Advisors: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge and Professor Bruce A. Craig

  • Dr. Hongmei Jiang. 2004.
    "A Two-Step Procedure for Multiple Pairwise Comparisons in Microarray Experiments"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Chuancai Wang. 2004.
    "Motif Discovery via Context Dependent Models"
    Advisors: Professor Bruce A. Craig and Professor Jun Xie

  • Dr. Nak-Kyeong Kim. 2005.
    "Bayesian Models and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Protein Motifs Using Secondary Characteristics"
    Advisor: Professor Jun Xie

  • Dr. John Stevens. 2005.
    "Meta-analytic approaches for microarray data"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Olga Vitek. 2005.
    "An Inferential Approach to Protein Backbone Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Assignment"
    Advisor: Professor Bruce A. Craig

  • Dr. Lianbo Yu. 2006.
    "Statistical Issues in Protein Microarray Analysis"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Martina Bremer. 2006.
    "Identifying Regulated Genes through the Correlation Structure of Time Dependent Microarray"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Kyunga Kim. 2007.
    "Statistical Issues in Mapping of Genetic Determinants for Expression Level Polymorphisms"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Riyan Cheng. 2007.
    "Statistical Methods for Mapping Multiple Complex Traits"
    Advisors: Professors Rebecca W. Doerge and Jun Xie

  • Dr. Shannon Knapp. 2007.
    "Incorporating Uncertainty into Non-Invasive DNA-based Mark-Recapture Population Estimates"
    Advisor: Professor Bruce Craig

  • Dr. Lingling An. 2008. "Dynamic Clustering of Time Series Gene Expression"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Suk-Young Yoo. 2008. "Statistical Methods for Integrating Epigenomic Results"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Lingmin Zeng. 2009. "Group Variable Selection Methods and Their Applications in Analyses and Genomic Data"
    Advisor: Professor Jun Xie

  • Dr. Lanqing Hua. 2009. "Statistical Inference of Protein Structure Using Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Data"
    Advisor: Professor Bruce A. Craig

  • Dr. Ryan Martin. 2009. "Fast Nonparametric Estimation of a Mixing Distribution with Application to High-Dimensional Inference"
    Advisors: Professors Jayanta Ghosh and Chuanhai Liu

  • Dr. Cherie Ochsenfeld. 2009. "Mixed Models in Quantitative Trait Loci and Association Mapping with Bootstrap Threshold"
    Advisors: Professors Rebecca W. Doerge and Kristofer Jennings

  • Dr. Alexendar Lipka. 2009. "Associating Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) with Binary Traits"
    Advisor: Professors Rebecca W. Doerge and George P. McCabe

  • Dr. Sudeshna Paul. 2009. "Estimation of Interatomic Distance Distribution of Protein Molecules from Small Angle Scattering (SAS) Images"
    Advisor: Professor Bruce A. Craig

  • Dr. Gayla Hobbs Olbricht. 2010. "Incorporating Genome Annotations in the Statistical Analysis of Genomic and Epigenomic Tiling Array Data"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Andrea Rau. 2010. "Reverse Engineering Gene Networks Using Genomic Time-Course Data"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Paul Livermore Auer. 2010. "Statistical Design and Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Data"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Cheng Zheng. 2010. "Model-based Identification and Quantification of Metabolites in 1H NMR Spectra"
    Advisor: Professor Olga Vitek

  • Dr. Tilman Achberger. 2011. "Selecting Subsets of Traits for Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis"
    Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Dr. Timothy Clough. 2012. "Statistical Protein Quantification and Prioritization in Label-Free Shotgun LC-MC/MC Proteomics"
    Advisor: Professor Olga Vitek

Former M.S. Students

  • Ms. Leah Flury Wetherill. 1998. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Ms. Jessica Lasky Su. 1999. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Mr. Lixiang Liu. 2001. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Mr. Peter Castelluccio. 2004. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Ms. Johnna Anderson. 2005. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Mr. Martin Gonzalo. 2005. Advisor: Professor Bruce A. Craig

  • Ms. Elsie Grace. 2005. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Ms. Rebecca Kendall Maloney. 2006. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Mr. Long Wang. 2006. Advisor: Professor Bruce A. Craig

  • Ms. Amy Watkins Wozniak. 2007. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Ms. Yuhong Wu. 2008. Advisor:Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Mr. Brian Denton. 2009. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

  • Ms. Hongmei Ding. 2009. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

Current Ph.D. Students

  • Mr. Douglas Baumann. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge
  • Ms. Veavi Chang. Advisor: Professor Olga Vitek
  • Mr. Xiongzhi (Chee) Chen. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge
  • Mr. Jyotiska Datta. Advisor: Professor Jayanta Ghosh
  • Mr. Youran Fan. Advisor: Professor Yuan (Alan) Qi
  • Ms. Melissa Key. Advisor: Professor Olga Vitek
  • Ms. Eunjung Lim. Advisor: Professor Bruce A. Craig
  • Ms. Yanzhu Lin. Advisors: Professor Min Zhang and Professor Dabao Zhang
  • Mr. Kelvin Ma. Advisor: Professor Olga Vitek
  • Ms. Vitara Pungpapong. Advisors: Professor Min Zhang and Professor Dabao Zhang
  • Mr. Sanvesh Srivastava. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge
  • Mr. Xie Tan. Advisors: Professor Yuan (Alan) Qi and Professor Peter Waddel (Biology)
  • Ms. Libo Wang. Advisors: Professor Dabao Zhang and Professor Min Zhang
  • Ms. Danni Yu. Advisor: Professor Olga Vitek
  • Mr. Zuoyi Zhang. Advisors: Professors Olga Vitek and Chuanhai Liu
  • Ms. Faye Zheng. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge
  • Ms. Jingyi Zhu. Advisor: Professor Jun Xie

Current M.S. Students

  • Ms. Denise Bradford. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge
  • Ms. Angelitta Britt. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge
  • Ms. Meena Choi. Advisor: Professor Olga Vitek
  • Ms. Kristen Young. Advisor: Professor Rebecca W. Doerge

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